What should i use ?

Major · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject: What should i use ?

I have some mail account from different mail servers. (like most people) I download them into my Gentoo box using POP3 and IMAP ... Every thing is working fine for this part.

I wondering if I could do this :

Read those emails from any other PC.
Is that the purpose of a mail server ... or is there a way to read the mail using Putty and reading the mails file ....
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jjasghar · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject:

you have a lot of options to answer that question. but i'm a paranoid email user so i ALWAYS use IMAP. pop takes the email off the server, (most of the time) so you'll have to connect to your desktop to read those though mutt or so other console based client...

i hope that sheds a little light on the answer.
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Major · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject:

yes I know this ...

But since I hate checking my emails at three different places I wish to check them all from my Gentoo. When Im in front if that computer everything is fine ... but I often out from trips and stuff like that and I have to check my emails from three different servers ... including (yahoo) which is POP3 that mean I dont have already red messages.

So I would like to be able to check all my email from only one place .... I know I could foward all my emails to a single mail ... but I have personnal school and work mail that I dont want to mix ...

From outside i have access to my Linux using putty and have an appache running and a postgress server with several DB. But I cant ...or i dont know how to acces my emails !

Hope is most clear !
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kpack · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 137

The term "mail server" usually refers to an MTA like postfix, qmail or sendmail which sends and receives mail. A mailserver is not required to read your mail remotely.

You have a couple choices. You can setup a POP3 or IMAP server like Courier IMAP. Or you can ssh into your linux box and use a command line mail reader like Mutt

I use Mutt over ssh. It works great as long as you mostly receive text based email.

jjasghar · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

Major · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:16 pm Post subject:

man pages of mutt :

User configuration file.